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So we're just going to ignore the established purchasing habits of those with accounts that have pre-registered credit cards for argument's sake?

> A magazine is not an 'app' and does not need to be treated as such.

Ask anyone who is currently trying to stay afloat in the magazine industry and I think you'll get quite a different answer. I wouldn't be surprised if most magazines have almost all their growth in the past year or two thanks to redefining magazines as apps.
What's a desktop? Something like a server?

;-)
Or, you know, stop drinking sweet things =) I know that's heretical in our society, but once you cut out sweet things your palate will change and you'll find things like unsweetened teas (cold Oolong is fucking amazing) and juice/water mixes are cheap, simple, tasty and healthy.
I am a developer, and I have Type II Bi-Polar Disorder.

For years I was crippled by intermittent depression. I failed out of school, lost jobs and, in general, failed at life even though I was blessed with an above average intelligence. Four years ago I started meds, and have been remarkably stable and productive since.

If you are here because you are an entrepreneur or developer struggling with depression, and you would like to talk about it, please feel free to contact me.
Hey Pubby, yeah the post is meant to be a quick tip, in and out, get your twitter profile fixed.

We specifically decided to avoid teaching people design in this post. That is forthcoming. :)

Also, thanks for the feedback on our own site - we just launched about 60 hours ago and are still working out a few kinks. We'll get this fixed pronto.

Best,
Paul Grieselhuber
You didn't ask for evidence in any of this posts' ancestery. If all you had said was "A scientific study regarding the connection between meditation and the ability to resist urges would be interesting and helpful to the authors assertions" you would have gotten a wholly different response.
Your entire post is nothing but fallacies. You don't evolve to do anything. And you didn't evolve in the presence of orange juice, oranges didn't exist. And it doesn't matter, because that is just the naturalistic fallacy. Something being "natural" doesn't make it good, and something being "artificial" doesn't make it bad. We did not evolve with modern tooth cleaning equipment or flouride treatments either, but those are still beneficial to our teeth.

There is absolutely no evidence to support the notion that pop is any worse for you than a fruit juice of similar acidity and caloric content.
Those aren't prospective randomized controlled trials. They're retrospective observational studies. They are evidence of efficacy, no doubt, but not particularly convincing evidence for all the normal reasons observational studies are often unconvincing, but maybe even moreso in light of some other contradictory results in the literature as well as the general concept of risk compensation (i.e., it's not like a parachute where it's very clearly obvious that it works).
Well let me put it this way. As a non-technical founder, your chances of identifying a great agency and that agency being willing to work for you are one or two orders of magnitude greater than your ability to identify a great developer and convincing him to be your co-founder.

Of course if you have an inherently interesting idea, a Jobsian charisma, or an uncanny nose for talent, then that can shift things in your favor. But I can say with some authority that the number of new entrepreneurs these days far outweighs the number of talented developers who are entertaining new startup job offers.
Maybe this can shed some light on your question:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/meditation-0505.html
I don't think anyone is arguing that physically exercising wouldn't provide some of the same mental benefits of meditation. I for one think that it would. (Especially the act of forcing oneself to go to the gym, rather than just having fun playing basketball with friends--even if the exercise content is the same).

But in your original post you are doubting that meditation has these benefits at all. I think that is what most people are arguing against.
Take a better nap to increase productivity
If true, this has an interesting implication - if our parent universe bothers to do it, it probably means they get useful information from it. That means that the recursion eventually terminates, that eventually in some great great grandchild universe they are able to produce the seed of the answer to whatever the original question was, rather than start another simulation.
My favorite slide:

Worry more about *building* the damn thing

Worry less *about* the damn thing

Many startups have a habit of being obsessed with themselves and their "culture" more than actually building the product.

There are so many things that are admirable and awe-inspiring about Github, and how they've gone about building their business. From my perspective, all of these things are a byproduct of one core value: building.
A better experiment would be to kill someone's family and steal all their money. It is hard to self experiment with desperation. I guess you could shoot some meth and let that snowball...
we do. :)
http://blog.springsource.org/2012/10/11/scripted-a-javascrip...
Structure changes behavior which improves capability.
It's that feeling of being in the zone, completely forgetting about tomorrow's worries. But how does one raise awareness of being in the zone? It is that consciousness that I believe is paramount.

Training your consciousness by playing sports vs sitting in lotus is analogous to training your biceps by rowing vs biceps curls. The latter is more targeted, hence more effective.

When you do what you love and you completely emerge in it, yes, you do get in a state of bliss. But are you conscious of it? If not, which is mostly the case when you see a group of people play soccer in the park, then I don't think that is beneficial in the meditative sense. Your mind is still very much active.

The reason why the traditional way of meditation is so effective (and has therefore been used for millennia), is because it is quite hard to just sit still and do nothing. And really clear your mind of any thought whatsoever.

It is this mental challenge that will really train your consciousness and raise your awareness.

An easier way to get started is to combine the two methods, in the form of tai-chi. Get your exercise, while clearing your mind (and raise your awareness). It has helped me a great deal -- my life has been so much smoother after I trained Tai Chi for 4 intensive months in China.

If you're interested, I blogged about that experience a while back: http://kuomarc.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/tai-chi-in-pursuit-o...
well i can't make ANY difference on windows (vista right now but i've tried 7) and chrome. http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ainmF
hehe... yeah they do look like that at first.

Personally I find that the reasoning behind these rules is very practical. You see, the course is all about understanding what sensations are and the effects that they have in our psyche. So one of the goals is to limit as much as possible all sources of sensations so that you can easily focus on a few and see how the mind reacts to them.
Hi. I'm one of the Scripted guys, let me chip in on that.

The team working on Scripted are also the guys creating language/framework tooling on the bigger IDE platforms - so writing Eclipse plugins. The real developers using those tools are starting to write more JavaScript whilst at the same time there is the new wave of developers coming straight into JavaScript who aren't great fans of IDEs - usually from the point of view that they are a bit 'heavy' for what they are trying to achieve. We even surveyed some teams about what they were using for JavaScript and that confirmed this tendency towards more lightweight editors.

We could have just done our usual thing and crank out more eclipse plugins but we wanted to investigate something more radical. I, myself, still use vi when I'm on the command line because it is so easy and just works. We wanted to create something with that convenience and speed but that had the key capabilities that can really help productivity - so early error indication through things like JSLint as well as good content assist and fast navigation.

We are also aware of the increasing buzz around Cloud IDEs and wanted to explore that too. We tried some prototype full Cloud IDE setups (so server side workspace with browser interface) but didn't get much traction. This approach of desktop client/server app with potentially movable server let's us start where we think users want us and grow to server side workspace setups later. I know this setup is working for me as we are using Scripted to develop Scripted.

If you haven't seen it, there is a bit more detail in my blog article:
http://blog.springsource.org/2012/10/11/scripted-a-javascrip...
Ask HN: Do you use Setters and Getters in PHP? 
I'm ashamed to admit that I have known about setters and getters for a very long time, and used them sparsely, mostly due to what I thought were time constraints.

What I learned a couple years ago is, NOT using them can be a bigger loss of time when you're updating something a lot. In an effort to write better stuff I start doing tons more data hiding, and using setters and getters (like most people do in other languages anyway) and found the following things:

I can sort of enforce type safety in PHP.
I can create better interfaces and hide implementation better.
Sanitizing the data is far easier. Usually just have to change it one place.
Code is much cleaner in many places.

So my question is, are you using them? Is there any good reason not to?
So then where are the Android fans launching magazines exclusive to that platform if it's such a lucrative market and iOS exclusivity is motivated only by fanboyism?
There was a study done by Sarah Lazar at Harvard Med a while back. They concluded that meditation can not only prevent age related cognitive decline, but it can actually physically reshape our brains, thickening our cortical structures. There's a TED video online, and the actual study is available online if anyone is interested (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16272874)
Screw the cancer. Stop drinking soda because it's just not tasty.

There's a whole world of drinks not found in your local vending machine that are crazy tasty and healthy for you. Fruit/vegetable-infused water, iced teas and blends, juice seltzer, kombucha, iced coffee, and about a billion delicious latin juice drinks with fruit that only people who speak spanish know about (my fav's probably Guanabana, though watered down a bit).
Many of these are places where people are caching rasterizations of deep layer hierarchies to avoid paying the compositing cost on a per-frame basis. But if you do that with drawRect:, you're using the CPU (not the GPU); if you use your own images, you're on the hook for your own caching, which you're likely to mess up. Such cases should probably use -[CALayer setShouldRasterize:] instead.

For more about this stuff, check out the two WWDC sessions I mentioned above.
Please assume for future correspondences that what I'd like when it comes to medical advice is real information and not anecdotes.
Updating a single field in a document is a pretty big feature. It will require a much slimmer and less monolithic pipeline for big-data indexing from multiple sources.
Kera looks great! Is it currently an idea that you're trying to validate or are you currently coding it up and waiting to launch?
Bacteria vs. Human body^1.

1. Specifically, teeth and saliva, but you must always consider the whole organism.

Drink soda pop --> Advantage, Bacteria.

Don't drink soda pop. --> What do you think?

Bacteria need acidic conditions and they are happy to have plenty of sugar. Preserving your teeth means giving your body the best possible chance against bacteria, slowing the process of decay as much as you can. But in the end, on every front, bacteria will always win. It's just a matter of time. If they don't consume you while you're alive, they will after you're dead.

With respect to tooth decay, drinking soft drinks surely helps bacteria, not the human body. But then, maybe people derive other benefits from drinking these concoctions. (Jolt?) Maybe preserving their teeth is not their number one priority?

Factoid: George Washington had wooden teeth?
Still, let say I create a game called "Run, run" which I explain in my description as:

"The most fun way to play monopoly on your iphone"

"But what is Monopoly?"
"You and your friends split into two teams. [...]"

I just copied a very popular game but changed the medium of how to play it. But then, again, it's more by curiosity that I'm asking this.
>Training your consciousness by playing sports vs sitting in lotus is analogous to training your biceps by rowing vs biceps curls. The latter is more targeted, hence more effective.

Only if your goal is to make your biceps bigger. If your goal is to gain strength, isolation is less effective, as strength involves more than just one muscle, it also involves stabilizing muscles, tendons, ligaments, etc. Who says training your conciousness isn't similar?
Plus sleeping time, how is that bad?
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I meditate while walking my dogs or taking a shower. Unless you are trying to achieve the title of Zen Grandmaster (which you probably are not) there is no need to sit still while doing so.
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Well, I could be wrong but I swear did an 'F3' on the page earlier to search for Gosper and it seemed like it wasn't there then.

Apologies for not being able to use a browser and falsely accusing you!
It isn't quite pure Esprima, we (Scripted) are using my (unfinished!) fork of Esprima that has some recovery features. That way we can get a decent AST out even when there are errors, it is setup here for playing around with: http://aclement.github.com/esprima/demo/parse.html
After reading that I still don't know the concrete definition of Startup. Is it an idea? I have many ideas that I have jotted down over the years. Are all those Startups? Or do I need to execute? The post suggests that if someone is building something that already exists then it is not a startup. Why? Is Hipmunk a startup? There already exists many travel search engines. You might say they have a unique spin on something that exists. Your hotel idea with a treadmill in every room had that as well.
Never be embarrassed. I do it all the time ;) I'd be walking home from work, focussing hard not to walk. Just staring blindly ahead, allowing auto-pilot to take me home, and focus on every sensation of every muscle in every part of my body.

Then again, this was in Hong Kong, where you see groups of oldies doing Taichi and what-not in every corner of the city. I still do it occasionally here in Vancouver, the city of Yoga, so it's still fine ;)
> It implies that the magazine is a new concept that he created.

Not really, it's more like The Transit App or Mail.app. Neither entity is trying to act like they invented transit or mailing. It's just a way of keeping it simple. IMO it's significantly more pompous to shit all over something because of the name.
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http://nyc2012.pydata.org/schedule/ - There is an beginners track, as well as an emerging technologies track, so no matter what your skill level in a particular subject, there should be an interesting talk to attend. Several of the authors of the primary packages in Python and data analysis will be there, including authors of PyTables, Pandas and NumPy, scikits.statsmodels, and contributors to many more packages.
curious to what medications you're taking?
400 million iOS devices counts as "invisible" to you? I don't think you're really his target audience.
I agree with some of the other new and exciting features already posted.. but I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the Solr Cloud was taken out of beta! That is pretty awesome and we will be looking at this feature closely for sure.
Absolutely. Try the same when reading HN. Are you conscious while you are reading these words? Were you conscious 10 seconds ago? When you're not conscious, are you really 'alive'?

Try meditating on Conway's Game of Life ;)
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In some respects similar to Brackets as it is a desktop app exploiting web technologies (JS front end) - and like Brackets we are sitting somewhere between 'basic editors' and a full blown IDE . However, there are some key differences in terms of tech and where we are heading.

From a tech point of view we are full JS end to end (server being a Node app). In terms of the features of the software itself, Brackets with quick-edits is going in a slightly different direction to us as we are making much more investment in understanding the source structure, with our recoverable JS parser and AMD/CommonJS awareness. We're focusing on smarter inferencing and better content assist for JavaScript - mainly because those are the real pain points we are having as programmers working with the language.

Scripted doesn't yet have the deployment story but obviously we are interested in that space and also some nice integrated debugging - but we don't want to unnecessarily duplicate the excellent Chrome Dev Tools.
Here's a study... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22363278/?i=10&from...

It may have been mentioned already, I just did a simple pubmed search.

I would guess that exercise would have some of the same benefits, especially if it's exercise that one forces oneself to do, rather than just a fun activity. I don't have a study for that hypothesis though.
Sure, but you're withholding support to save two dollars. Most people's time is more valuable than that.
Ask HN: Want to collaborate on a quick election themed website?
I have been struggling with the backend, since I'm FED and routing scares me. Anyone decent Rails dev's out there who want to help build a website that asks people to explain why they are voting and who for in 200 words or less?
It would be much better if we said that ''A startup is any profit driven business of any nature that is less then 3-4 years old''. Limiting the defination in this fashion will give some certainty
Agree with your comment in general but on this ...

> But how does one raise awareness of being in the zone? It is that consciousness that I believe is paramount.

I believe first, we have to realize that people in general are not aware that they could be aware. What I mean by this is that at first, you have to realize that you can be better, or you can achieve better if you bring the rules, or guides, or signs, into your consciousness. For example, without being aware that your daily activities could be an activity towards self-improvement, you cannot really avail the opportunities to be conscious.

Secondly, and once you realize the above, you can further raise your consciousness level for the betterment of not only yourself, but for the humanity at large (starting from your immediate close-by people in your circle).

So all in all, with the combination as you suggest, people can become more conscious, more ethical, more compassionate....all because they are making an effort to staying in here-now.
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We've done a lot of validation and have a bunch of people doing experiments with it. We can chat more about it if you want to reach out cameron@kera.io
> Why does Newsstand not have a "In this issue" tab when you preview the app?

You can download the app and preview the magazine.

> Why do I have to buy the whole issue instead of just an article?

Because nobody sells content like this, it's not just limited to magazines.

> Why can't I have a central list of articles, that I can search, and favourite and share?

Because magazine companies are trapped in the past.
LaTeX does have the frenchspacing option, which does try to make wider spaces between sentences. What's nice about LaTeX is that you can actually tell it what you mean, like "Dr.~Strangelove" has a non-breaking space, while "add the eggs, etc.\ to the mixture" has a non-sentence-ending space, and "I went to the DMV.\@ Then I went to work." has a sentence-ending space before 'Then', since TeX takes capital+period to be an abbreviation. I suspect that Unicode has some of these things, and that no one ever bothers to use them.

Anyhow, the two-space thing is sort of interesting trivia: http://www.techwr-l.com/archives/9907/techwhirl-9907-01344.h...
One thing that really helps:

Server-side, encrypt a token which, including representing the unique form instance, contains a tick count and set a hidden input's value to it. Now, ensure that each form instance cannot be submitted more than once AND that the delta between the current tick count and the form's tick count is greater than or equal to the amount of time that would be need for a human to fill out the form.

You MUST ensure client-side error detection is superb (as you want to catch all errors prior to submitting), handle for back button usage properly (browser caching directives, http status codes, etc), and ensure you handle for browsers which may auto fill information in for the user.

You would be surprised just how many bots come in and either used a cached form or immediately submit it. Assuming they are smart enough to bypass both of these, you just reduced the number of times they could potentially spam you dramatically.

The tick count figure needs to be done on a form by form basis, as each one likely has a different minimum.
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The script is hosted on your end and data is pulled from our servers to yours, we don't store any personal information or anything on our side.

Edit: I'll update the FAQ
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I think "even out" was a bad/lazy choice of words on my part. What I mean is, it will get to a point where the ratio of women in tech will be more or less equivalent to the ratio of women that WANT to be in tech. This may or may not be exactly 50%. It could be 25%. I don't know myself. It's getting better in certain areas, but when you talk about "technical" positions e.g. programming, sysadmin, etc the ratio seems to be pretty bad and far less than what it could be.

Right now I suspect too many women that are kind of interested and may want to do this kind of work are scared off/intimidated (or worse, they never even consider it because of the thought "I'm not that kind of person") by the stereotypes/culture/etc and that's too bad.
The literal reading of this statement suggests hitting your head with a hammer could make you better at math.
You can just form an LLC and get the same limited liability while being taxed as an individual sole proprietor. What you write was an issue in some jurisdictions forty or fifty years ago, but there were limited partnerships even then to get limited liability.
Interesting and possibly very dangerous idea. The devil's in the details - namely, who is the CDO, and what do they have the power to do? Steve Jobs as the CDO could make a powerful company; Carly Fiorina as CDO will drive you off a cliff.
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